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[quote=Anonymous]I grew up overseas and have never attended school in the US, so I am not familiar at all with the education system here.  My baby is still small and there will be years before he is to apply to the elementary school.  But I read here often about the GT programs at various elementary schools and how important they are.

What is this GT program all about?  Do they test kids to determine if they are gifted?  
what is this based upon and at which age does such testing take place? 
Does GT mean that a child will be skipping a grade or starting elementary school earlier than others?
If you live in the area zoned for the non-GT school, does your child first start going to that school and then they determine whether he/she needs to be in the GT program?
Does the zoned elementary school then send your child away to another school and what determines where?

We are not living near any GT program elementary school, so, we would like to know how this whole thing works to maybe relocate if need be to the area with the GT school.  Please, no sharkey remarks, I am not suggesting in any way that my child is gifted or will be, he is only 18 month old, I just want to prepare when it is time to find the best fit school for him.  If he has special needs such as GT or learning disability we want to live near the school that has such programs to avoid having to add 30 min extra commute time to drop off our kid to the far away school.  It is a very strange concept to me to have to send your child to the far away school as where I grew up we just went to the neighborhood school closest to us and all schools were the same following same program.  It sounds like it is much more complicated in the US. [/quote]

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